Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-19
THE YACHTS IN HARBoR.
owing to Lack of Wind and the Heavy Showers the Atlantic Fleet Put Into This Rarbor.


 owing to Lack of wind and the
 Heavy Showers the Atlantic Fleet
 Put Into This Rarbor.
 About thirty yachts of the Atlantic Yacht club were anchored off Stiles Park and Mor- ris Cove last evening, they having arrived from Black Rock late in the afternoon. The yachts were to have run to New London yes- terday, but owing to lack of wind and the showers they only got as far as this city, al- though some of the smaller ones went to the Thimble Islands, where they were met by the yachts of the New Haven club and will sail for New London to-day. The yachtsmen of the Atlantic club spent the evening aboard the yachts or at Captain Shows at Light house Point, where many dined sumptuously, mine host, Captain Snow, preparing one of his unrivalled dinners for the party. Among the yachts at anchor were: Schooners- Southern Cross, Magic, Speransa, Wyvern, Gevalia, Leona, Signal and Edith. Shops Adelaide, Ariadne, Concord, Onward, Chris tine, Hyssa, Othlon, Enterprise. Rover, Hir- vana, Clean, Salay, Vixen, Tourist, Heron, Arab, Auten, Kangaroo, Rival, Fanita, Stel- Ia and Nepenthe, the catboat Peggy and the steam yacht Electra, which is enrolled in the Atlantic fleet, as well as being the flagship of the New York Yacht club, Seminole, Bea,. trice, Agalia and Haze, and the sloops Hide gard, Anaconda, Roamer and Thistle Sunday was a quiet day with the. Atlantic club at Black Rock. The only ceremony of the day was divine ser vice at 10:30 o'clock. A gun was fired from the flagship Rover, and white flag bearing red cross was run up in the main rigging aboard the schooner Gevalia, indicating that service was to be held aboard her. Imme- diately number of the guests of the hotel hurried down to the landing and were rowed off to the schooner. She was provided with an awning which reached from stem to stern, and there was an abundance of camp chairs ! on board. These were placed in every con- venient location on the deck and on the deck house. The Rev. Dr. W. H. Thomas, who has been chaplain of the fleet for eighteen years, and who is cruising on the flagship, as the first hymn "Rock of Ages, which was sung with good effect, the music sounding well across the water. He then read, with alternate readings by the congre- gation, number of passages from the Psalms having reference to the great deep. After prayer and the singing of Jesus, Lover of My Soul, :" he gave out as his text Job, K, 8: "Which spreadeth outth heavens and tread eth out the face of the sea-" The sermon was brief. The speaker dwelt chiefly on the living power of natural law and the forces which limited the exercise of human effort. He
 
 forces urging men toward the knowledge and worship of God. The sermon was interrupted now and then by the rattling of chains and the creaking of blocks, while the attention of the congregation was distracted occasionally by the remarks of local boat sailors who came sailing around the Gevalia, evil dently laboring under the impression that she was the ark and that Noah was featuring his family and the other animals. Canoeists in canoes of all sizes and models, except good ones, sailed and rowed around the harbor and commented audibly about everything they beheld, as if they regarded themselves as the sole lessees and managers of the earth and the water under the earth. The schooner Magic took from the shore 8 large party arm- ed with two banjos and one orange and black tennis blazer, and went out for a sail. She had hard time getting her people landed in time for dinner, owing to the plentiful lack of wind. In the afternoon the wind began to breeze up and the waters danced merrily around the anchored yachts.